the legend begins…
hi there, i’m jared. nice to meet you.
my history of journaling on the internet began somewhere in either late 2002 or early 2003. why can’t i pinpoint the date? well that’s a funny story. sometime in 2002 blogs started becoming the thing to do with the internet. being technically inclined and knowing how to get around on the internets i signed up for a livejournal. i quickly outgrew that and moved to blogspot leaving the livejournal behind. i never really thought about it or cared until now, but i’m kind of sad that i didn’t try to save any of those posts. because i’m sure they’re awesome. i posted on that blogspot site for a while, i think i just used their built-in publishing thing. sometime after that i got my very first domain, http://inverseinfinity.net. yeah, pretty nerdy. i ended up pointing a blogspot account to that domain and did that for a while. at some point i moved over to movable type and if i recall i lost some posts in the migration. again, didn’t think about it or particularly care.
sometime during the life of inverseinfinity i got tired of the domain and bought another one, srsly.org, where i still live today. the migration was from movable type to movable type so i don’t think i lost anything this time. and that’s where the archives start right now. eventually i got fed up with movable type for one reason or another and moved to wordpress. and that brings us up to speed as far as site history. though i recently found my old blogger account and it turns out i have posts from 4/2003 to 7/2004. so i’m going to work on getting those imported here. which means copying the text into a new post and changing the date for each one. since the posts were archived externally, and i no longer own that domain, this is the best i can do.
that’s great, now who the heck are you?
i grew up in nowhere of consequence in northern california. i left as soon as i could for college in another state. somehow i ended up in Washington and graduated from the University of Puget sound with a B.S. in Computer Science. now i live in Seattle and work for a growing software company that makes a media publishing/management software suite. currently i live with my girlfriend and two cats one cat and a dog in a cozy apartment loft in sand point condo in north seattle swanky bachelor pad in Fremont. we’ve i’ve moved a few times.
so what’s the deal?
why do i put down the things i do in the way i do it? i bet by now the capitalization and broken sentences are driving you crazy. that’s just how things come out. it’s not that i’m lazy, that’s just how i chose to do it. i think i’ve been doing it this way for a long time (haven’t looked at the old posts much) and i see no reason to change how i’m doing it now. the short sentences are just how i think. things just come out in small bursts.